Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1887-05-27

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those beautiful children presented in baptism.
This little one never smiled; 1t never will
smile A flower flung ON an awfully barren
beach. Obi Heavenly Shepherd, fold that
little one in Thy arms. Wrap around you
your shawl or your coat tighter, for the cUld
wind sweeps through.
Strike another match. Ali is Il possible
that that young womans SCARED and bruised
face ever was looked into by maternal ten
dernessl Utter no scorn. Utter no harsh
word No ray of hope has dawned on that
brow for many year. No ray of hope ever
will dawn on that brow. But the light has
gone out Do not strike another light. IL will
be mockery to kndle another light in such
= place as that. Pass out and pass down the
street. Our cities of Brooklyn and New York
and other great cities are full of such homes,
and the worst time is the third watch OF the
uight
Do You know it is in this watch Of the night
that criminals do their worst wUrkf 1t is the
criminals watch
AT half-past eight O'Clock you will find
them in the drinking saloon, but toward
twelve o'clock they go to their garrets, they
get out their tools, then they start on the
street. Watching on either side for the po-
lice, they go to their work of darkness This
is burglar, and the false key will soon
touch the store lock. This is an incendiary
and before morning there will be light on
the sky, and cry of "Firel firem This is an
assassin, and tomorrow there will he dead
body found in one of those vacant lots. Dur
ing the daytime these villains in our cities
lounge about, some asleep and some awake.
put wnen the third watch of the night arrives,
their eye is keen, their brain cool, their arm
strong, their foot fleet to fly or pursue, they
are ready.
Many of these poor creatures were brought
up in that way. They were born in a thieves
garnet Their childish toy was a burglars
dark-lantern. The first thing they remember
was their mother bandaglng the brow of
their father, struck by the police club They
began by robbing boys pockets, and now
they have come to dig the underground pas
sage to the cellar of the bank and are pre-
pairing to blast the gold vault.
just so long as there are neglected children
of the streets, just so long we will have these
desperadoes Some one, wishing to make a
good Christian point and to quote a pas
sage OF Scripture, expecting to get Script
ural passage in answer, said to one of these
poor lads, cast out and wretChed: "When your
father and your mother forsake you, who
then will take you up" and the boy said:
1.-The perlice, the perlice!"
In the third watch OF the night gambling
does its worst work What though the hours
be slipping away, and though the wife be
waiting in the cherries home! Bring on
ilOio IuU up more stakes. nat
| commercial house that only little while ago
put out sign of copartnership WILL in few
seasons be wrecked on a gamblers table
There will be many money-till that will
spring a leak. A member of Congress
gambled with a member-elect and won one
hundred and twenty thousand dollars. The
old way of getting living is so slow. The
old way of getting n fortune is so stupid
Come, let us toss up and see who shall have
it. And so the work goes on, from the
wheeling wretches pitching pennies in rum
grocery up to the millionaire gambler in
the stock market
In the third watch of the night, pass down
the streets of these cities, and you hear the
click of the dice and the sharp, keen stroke
of the ball on the billiard table At these
places merchant princes dismount, and legis
lators tired of making laws, take a respite in
breaking them. All classes of people are
robbed by this crime-the importer of for
eign silks and the dealer in Chatham street
Observation-Disclosures The clerks of the
store take hand after the shutters are put
up, and the officers of the court while away
their time while the jury is out.
In Baden Baden, when that city was the
greatest of all gambling places on earth,
it was no unusual thing the next morning, in
the woods around about the city, to find the
suspended bodies Of suicides. Whatever be
the splendor of surroundings, there is no ex-
CuoO hoI Unlo CilIlc lie UUunubGS Oh 6UeIndI
destruction roll in the deep rumble of that
gambling tenpin alley, and as men come out
to join the long procession of sin, all the
drums Of death beat the dead march of 6
Thousand souls
In one year, in the city of New York, there
were seven million dollars sacrificed at the
gaming table Perhaps some of your friends
have been smitten in this sin. Perhaps some
of you have been smitten by it,
Perhaps there may be stranger in the
house this morning come from some of the
hotels. Look out for those agents of iniquity
who tarry around the hotels, and ask you
would you like to see the cityY' "Have
ing up townr "NoH Then the
villain will undertake to show you what he
calls the lions" and elephants" and after q
young man, through morbid curiosity oil
through badness of soul, has seen the ''lions'
and the elephants he will be on enchanted
| ground. Look out for these men who move
around the hotels with sleek hats-always
with sleek hats-and patronizing air and un
| accountable interest about your welfare and
entertainment You are a fool if you cannot
see through it. They want your money
In Chestnut street, Philadelphia while i
was living in that city, an incident occurred
which was familiar to us there In Chestnut
street young man went into a gambling
saloon lost all his property, then blew hi:
pIdlilS OuI, anu DeIOTe Cne DlOOu was washed
from the floor by the maid the comrades wert
shuffting cards again. You see there is more
mercy in the highwaymen for the belatec
traveller on whose body he heaps the stones
there is more mercy in the frost for the flower
that it kills, there is more mercy in the hur
rlcane that shivers the steamer on the Lous
island coast than there is mercy in the bear,
Of a gambler for his victim.
In the third watch of the night, also,
drunkenness does its worst The drinking
will be respectable at o'clock in the evening,
a little flushed at nine, laxative and garru-
lous at ten, at eleven blasphemous at twelve
the hat falls off, at one the man falls to the
floor asking for more drink Strewn through
the drinking saloons of the city, fathers,
brothers, husbands sons, as good as you are
by nature, perhaps better.
In the high circles of society it is hushed up,
merchant prince, if he gets noisy and UNI
comfortable, is taken by his fellow-revelers
who try to get him to bed or take him home,
where he falls fiat in the entry. Do not
wake up the children. They have had
disgrace enough. Do not let them know
it, Hush it up But sometimes it cannot
be hushed up, when the rum touches the brain
| and the man becomes thoroughly frenZied.
Such an one came home, having been absent
for some time, and during his absence his
wife had died. and she lay in the next room
prepared for the obsequies, and he went in
anu vi b5Seu neT ny Gne locks, ana SnOOK ner
out of her shroud, and pitched her out of the
window
Oh! when rum touches the brain you can.
not hush it up. My friends, you see all
around you the need that something radical
be done. You do not see the worst. In the
midnight meetings in London a great multi
tude have been saved We want few hun
dred Christian men and women to come dowr
from the highest circles of society to toi
amid these wandering and destitute ones, and
kIndle up light in the dark alley, even the
gladness of heaven.
Do not go wrapped in fine apparel and